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Three days networking opportunities for planners, architects, engineers, but also academics, policy makers, and engaged citizens to discuss the development of the city and its transport system.

A full day of MATSim will be held in conjunction with the 12^th Symposium of the European Association for Research in Transportation (hEART 2024) in Helsinki.

IVT Seminar with Pedro Zattoni Scroccaro from TU Delft

This year's symposium is taking place the 29th of May 2024. The programme, keynotes, and further information will be available soon. Please save the date!

Swiss transportation scientists' and spatial planners' annual conference.

IVT Seminar with Professor Stefan Hess from the University of Leeds.

IVT Seminar with Professor Tom Reinhold from traffiQ in Frankfurt.

The bicycle was once the number one means of transportation until it was pushed to the brink of insignificance by the car. Now the bicycle is back and has more political weight than it has been for a long time.

Allocating dedicated road space to slow modes is considered an effective way toward a radical modal shift. By exploiting traffic flow theoretical knowledge, convenient models can be developed to help evaluate the influence of such a large-scale transformation on network traffic performance. Novel strategies for bi-modal urban traffic management can also be proposed to solve congestion.

IVT Seminar with Professor Greg Erhardt from the University of Kentucky in Lexington.

CSFM Seminar co-​organized with the Center for Energy Policy and Economics (CEPE) looking at latest research on factors influencing the adoption and charging of electric vehicles.

Many aspects contribute to the further development of the technologies, but no single game changer could be identified. Developments are expected in automation; revolutionary changes are perceived as unlikely.

Public dissertation presentation by Zahra Ghandeharioun.

Cycling is an important part of the mobility transition. However, there is a lack of space for safe road usage whether on foot, by bike or in a car.

What would happen if we radically redistributed road space in our cities? The 'E-Bike City' project at ETH Zurich is investigating this question.

Interested in the railway system? Engineers give students an insight into the railway industry. Register now!

ISTP Colloquium with Dr. Brilé Anderson, from the Organisation for Economic Co-​operation and Development (OECD), Environmental Economist at Sahel and West Africa Club.

E-Bike City: A way to solve the climate problem? Ideological action? Transport policy?

The city is allowed to remove 16 white car parking spaces for a cycle path in Schwamendingen. The Administrative Court has rejected an appeal against this.

State-of-the-art approaches and future research directions

Public dissertation presentation by Tzu-Hao Yan.

Radically remodelling the road network with the so-called "E-Bike City" lighthouse project. Will it be tight for cars?

Transport planning in the OECD countries is at a challenged-stage due to the success of their car-road-systems threatening to miss their agreed climate goals. The event will discuss the potential of micro-mobility and micro-mobility friendly cities & suburbs to make a difference and to offer a way out of our current dilemma.  

ETH Risk Center's public Resilience Webinar with Dr Siqi Songi from the Singapore-​ETH Center.

Eva Heinen research focuses on the mobility sector, specifically on sustainable development, transport planning, spatial planning, non-motorized traffic, and health.

Professor Kay Axhausen's farewell lecture

Zurich City Council, ETH Zurich, and the bike-friendly city in an interview on Radio SRF 1.

NSL Colloquium with transport planning researchers and practitioners to reflect on current issues.  

Public dissertation presentation by Grace Kagho.

How could the traffic of the future look in the net-zero city of Zurich? Researchers at ETH Zurich are planning for the eventuality that current measures to reduce greenhouse gases are not sufficient.

ETH researchers are planning the future of transportation in Zurich. They want to allocate half of the roads to bicycles. This is how it could look like.

What happens when cities gear their road space primarily to the needs of cyclists and e-​bikers? ETH researchers at the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering (D-BAUG) use examples from the city of Zurich to show how such an E-​Bike City might look one day.

CSFM Seminar with Josephine Leuba and Nicole Mathys from the Federal Office For Spatial Development (ARE), as well as with Thomas Heck from the Laboratory for Energy Systems Analysis at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI).

Public dissertation presentation by Thomas Spanninger.

IVT Seminar with Dr Steffen Blume from artifact.swiss and Professor Deb Panja from Utrecht University, co-organized by the ETH Risk Center.

IVT Seminar with Professor Konstantinos Ampountolas from the University of Thessaly, Greece.

During the last months, ETH Zurich's awareness campaign unveiled how to get around the campus and the city in a smart manner. Clarissa Livingston was there to present the D-BAUG's lighthouse project: the E-Bike City.

D-BAUG Spotlight Seminar Series with Dr Maria Laura Delle Monache from UC Berkeley.

Do not miss the press conference from the Swiss National Sciene Foundation of the NRP 78 Covid-19 project which is going to be available as online stream on Tuesday 14 November at 9:30.

Risk Center Seminar Series featuring Professor Meisam Akbarzadeh from the Isfahan University of Technology in Iran. He will talk about urban transportation systems which are prone to recurrent and non-recurrent congestions, and further he shows how to investigate patterns of congestion in real-world cities.  

On 26 October 2023, the Association of Scientific Staff invites all students, researchers and professors to the department's annual “Meet & Share” event. Doctoral students from 10 Institutes will present selected case studies to illustrate the many ways in which research at D-​BAUG helps engineer a more sustainable future. Keynotes will be given by Professors Eleni Chatzi and Max Maurer. Don't miss this exciting event and the apéro afterwards!

In homage to the architectural historian and photographer Hans-​Peter Bärtschi, we celebrate a new photo book from the ETH Library and the complete digitisation of his photographic archive.

CSFM Seminar co-​organized together with the Institute of Science, Technology and Policy featuring Bessie Noll from the Energy and Technology Policy Group (EPG), Dr Betsy Sandoval Guzman from the Vehicle Systems Group at Empa, Alessio Levis from the International Political Economy and Environmental Politics group (IPEEP), and Roman Rosenfellner from the Federal Roads Office (FEDRO).

ISTP Colloquium with Regina Witter from the Federal Office for Spatial Development (ARE) where she is deputy head of agglomeration traffic.

The CSFM organizes the first technical workshop of the Open Digital Twin Platform (ODTP) of the Swiss Mobility System.

Using connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) as mobile actuators to perform speed coordination tasks. Read more about the real-case study in Antwerp, Belgium.

The city is realising the second bicycle priority route in Zurich Seefeld. Cyclists will largely have the right of way on a 2.5-kilometre stretch.

Sandro Tanner's master's thesis on tradable mobility credits for more climate protection wins the Prix LITRA 2023.

ISTP Colloquium with Dr Laurent Cartier from the Swiss Gemmological Institute (SSEF) about requirements on risks and transparency for mineral supply chains.

Workshop at the 26th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (IEEE ITSC-2023).